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Nature 442, 856-857 (24 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442856a; Published online 23 August 2006

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Special report What happens after the water recedes?

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New Orleans universities are still struggling to recover from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Heidi Ledford examines how researchers at one leading institution are coping.

On a grim day last September, a ten-car convoy of researchers drove into the putrid waters of downtown New Orleans. Scientists fanned out across the Tulane University health-sciences campus, salvaging computers and research samples from buildings flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.